SV12-Day 8

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1. ACRI: bitter, sour
  • Example: acrid: adj. stingingly bitter (in taste smell or speech)
  • Sentence: His acrid insults washed through her, leaving a bitter taste in her soul.

2. GERM: vital part
  • Example: germinate: v. to sprout (said of seeds)
  • Sentence: The seeds of bitterness germinated into a tree of sorrow in her heart.

3. JUNCT: join
  • Example: adjunct: n. someone who assists another
  • Sentence: At the right time, her faithful adjunct talked Lynn down from her tree of despair.
4. LIBER: free
  • Example: libertine: n. a person without morals
  • Sentence: The whole experience left Lynn teetering toward the lawless life of a libertine.

5. HABIT: have; live
  • Example: habitable: adj. fit to be lived in
  • Sentence: She felt the world would not be habitable otherwise.

6. FIN: end
  • infinitesimal: adj. so small it cannot be measured
  • Sentence: She felt she was an infinitesimal voice in an endless sea of people.

7. PRIME: first
  • prima donna: n. the first lady of an opera; any vain woman
  • Sentence: Then Lyn sneered and said of Mark, “What a Prima Donna.”

8. AMPHI: **two
      • Example: Amphitheater n. arena-like theater where the audience sits around the stage
  • Sentence: As the scene broke up in the cafeteria amphitheater, the on-lookers went back to their cardboard pizza and cold, plastic macaroni.

9. EU**: pleasant
      • Example: euphonious: adj. having a pleasing sound
  • Sentence: Euphonious conversations and general dining din ensued, as usual.
10. LOQUI: speak
  • Example: soliloquy: n. when a character on stage speaks his thoughts out loud to the audience
  • Sentence: Mark entreated the cafeteria audience with a soliloquy, shouting, “Oh what a noble mind is here o’erthrown…”, but everyone ignored him and continued eating.